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Comment by draconicman

Found inside Ancient Guo-Lai Caches. All of the caches are now at the end of the left hall or at the end of the back hall from where you enter. Also there are a bunch of mobs so unless you're a stealther be careful.

EDIT: Blizz hotfixed the bug with the recipes only dropping for people with exactly 525 cooking skill.

Comment by Kasa24

These are dropped from mobs in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. They can also be found inside Ancient Guo-Lai caches if draconicman is correct.

Comment by Zephyrine

EDIT: THESE RECIPES HAVE NOW BEEN HOTFIXED. They should drop as normal.

Since there is hardly any information going around about these new recipes I'm going to try to make things as clear as possible. At its current state these things seem to be bugged. I tried farming these recipes on my main, maxed level cooking for hours and hours, by killing mobs, looting chests etc, and nothing.

Then I saw a report about someone having looted these with Illustrious Grand Master Cook 525, so I decided to try it out on an alt. My druid was about 25 cooking when I started, and trying to farm the recipes at that level gave me no luck. I then leveled my cooking to 525, but DID NOT LEARN ZEN COOKING, and had the recipe drop my first try.

So the trick atm seems to be to have 525 Illustrious Grand Master Cook, but no further than that. Farm mogu mobs around Gou-Lai halls for the Ancient Guo-Lai Cache Key and loot the treasure chests inside Guo-Lai Halls in Vale of Eternal Blossom. The keys might have a low droprate, but just keep farming and they will pop up for you.

Since the recipes themselves actually require 600 cooking, I suggest you farm all the recipes you want before you continue to level your cooking!

Comment by Voxxel

Unless you're a druid you need to land on each bough, with a 99% chance to aggro the nearby hawks so forced to fight for each egg that takes much-much more time then just travel and rip off mushrooms / petals where you're not necessarily pulled into combat actions.

You can also compare spent time that Fresh Silkfeather Hawk Eggs farming takes with the requirement of Agility food, where collecting Fresh Pomfruits is a completely joke. You don't even need to dismount or fight at all... just fly around, spamclick the lingering fruits, fly away on infrequent aggro and repeat..

After all, I don't think we need to farm that much for a 300-stat food nowadays. I mean we're in the last major patch. I can imagine Blizzard move those ingredients to Merchant Tantan like they did with Mango and Strawberries or make them faster and easier to farm (nerf the time it takes to Pomfruit level at least). Don't forget we still need to farm rares for the special ingredient part...